MD-0064 Darilbalde

Model number: MD-0064
Code name: Darilbalde
Unit type: prototype mobile suit
Manufacturer: Jeturk Heavy Machinery
Operator: Asticassia School of Technology Jeturk House
First deployment: A.S. 122
Accommodation: pilot only, in standard cockpit in torso
Dimensions: head height 18.7 meters
Weight: max gross weight 72.8 metric tons
Armor materials: unknown
Powerplant: unknown
Propulsion: unknown
Equipment and design features: sensors, range unknown; Decision Making Extension AI; Shell Unit
Fixed armaments: 2 x beam vulcan gun, mounted in torso
Optional hand armaments: beam javelin, can separate into beam anchor and beam kunai (original configuration); composite arms, features gunblade and beam shot rifle (revised configuration); 2 x knee crusher, features 4 x pellet mine
Remote weapons: 2 x Ambikā shield drone, mounted on shoulders (original configuration); 2 x Daya Ambikā, mounted on shoulders (revised configuration); 2 x shackle claw, mounted as feet, can perform wire-guided attacks to restrain enemies and deliver electric shock; 2 x Iśvara attack drone, can be configured as A Type with beam anchor and beam kunai, or B Type with 2 x beam saber (original configuration); 4 x Gussa Iśvara, features beam cannon/saber (revised configuration)

The MD-0064 Darilbalde was a prototype close combat mobile suit developed by Jeturk Heavy Machinery. It was a proof of concept for Jeturk’s fifth generation mobile suits and prioritized adapting military drone technology for use with mobile suits. The Darilbalde implemented a Decision Making Extension AI capable of self-learning and autonomous operation. This was accomplished without implementing the GUND Format technology banned by the Mobile Suit Development Council. Multiple parts of the Darilbalde could detach and function as drones, including the Ambikā shields, the shackle claw feet, the Iśvara A Type arm units with a beam anchor and beam kunai, or the Iśvara B Type, which mounted two beam sabers. The Darilbalde was also armed with beam vulcan guns, a beam javelin (formed by combining the beam anchor and beam kunai), and knee crushers with pellet mine launchers.

In A.S. 122, Guel Jeturk piloted the Darilbalde in a rematch against Suletta Mercury’s XVX-016 Gundam Aerial and lost for a second time. Following this defeat, the Darilbalde’s armaments were revised and included the composite arms (a combination of a beam shot rifle and gunblade), the improved Daya Ambikā shield drones and Gussa Iśvara attack drones with beam cannons and restraint wires that could capture a target and explode. Guel used the upgraded Darilbalde in a rematch against Suletta’s XVX-016RN Gundam Aerial Rebuild and nearly lost again until Suletta’s suit was remotely deactivated by Miorine Rembran. This allowed Guel to sever the Aerial Rebuild’s blade antenna and win the match, thus reclaiming the title of Holder. Later, Guel used the Darilbalde in real combat against members of Grassley House, which resulted in the suit’s destruction.

Pilot: Guel Jeturk
First appearance: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury
Original mechanical designer: Ippei Gyoubu

Beam javelin

Cockpit

Composite arms

Hand

Head

Iśvara attack drone & Ambikā shield drone

Rear view (Original configuration)

Rear view (Revised configuration)